NOTE: This admissions book records Darwin's admission, not his residence in College, which began in Lent Term 1828.

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1 Darwin was admitted as a 'pensioner', one of three ranks of students: fellow commoners (younger sons of noblemen or very wealthy individuals), pensioners (coming from the French for boarder) and sizars. A pensioner being a commoner who was able to pay all of his own fees and expenses without a scholarship.